Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
